A new site called IWriteLike.Me claims to analyse your writing and tell you which author's style you most resemble. I tried it with a couple recent blog posts and got Dan Brown (great! ).
On the other hand, when I copied in the recent article I wrote for real money and with a bit of effort to it got me rated as Chuck Palahniuk. Because you know that the members of Credit Unions across Canada want nothing more than to read some blogger's quasi-Fight Club prose stylings! Although it was an article about a kick boxing deposit specialist so who knows – maybe it's just looking for certain words?
Hmmm, let's try something. “In the haunted house, Carrie stood covered in blood. Outside, a rabid dog watched as a vampire hovered at the window.”
And the result for this entire blog post is…not what I expected.
I'm pretty excited as I ended up being asked to do a brief blurb on what RPL has meant to me over the years so as long as that doesn't end up on the cutting room floor (er, what's the publishing equivalent? The editor's cut & uhm, don't paste board), I'll post a scan of it when the book comes out.
Sure, they're counting on some store specials in this list but the point they make about the healthiest foods that you can eat often being the cheapest is a very valid one.
Someone posted on Facebook about the big dump of snow Alberta got today. That reminded me of one year when Shea and I were living in Calgary when there was some sort of snowfall all twelve months of the year – including June, July and August. A couple quick Google searches don't refresh my memory but I think it was 2002 or 2003. And you've never had a weird experience till you're walking through the snow to get to your bus stop in the summer – multiple times!
I'm about as far from a Pitchfork following, Fleet Iver Weekend-listening hipster as you'll find.
But I do have friends who fit that category and a recent visit to Vancouver where I got to catch up with one of those friends also introduced me to a new singer-songwriter who I think is probably very much in that mode of music listening.
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Although it was an article about a kick boxing deposit specialist so who knows – maybe it's just looking for certain words? 
